NYFF4: Carlos Saura’s “The Hunt”

On Tuesday, “50 Years of the New York Film Festival” continues with Carlos Saura’s The Hunt (La caza), a selection from the fourth festival in 1966.

The Hunt is the harrowing story of three Spanish Civil War veterans and a young man who decide to go on a weekend hunting trip to momentarily escape from their lives’ hardships. The conflict that arises when the men begin to reminisce about their past serves as a vehicle for Saura to examine the effects of the war on Spanish society. When The Hunt opened in theaters in 1967, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called the movie “the toughest Spanish picture I have ever seen, and the most amazingly revealing.” The film was also noted for some superb acting by its four leading men—Alfredo Mayo, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Ismael Merlo and José Maria Prada—as well as its use of violence. The Hunt became Saura’s first international success and won him the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 16th Berlin International Film Festival.

"50 Years of the New York Film Festival" will continue on Tuesday, November 8 (and every Tuesday after that) with Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algieri) from the fifth edition of the festival in 1967.

Here is a list of all the films that played the fourth New York Film Festival in 1966:Loves of A Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky)
Milos Forman, Czechoslavakia, 1965
Screened w/ The Last Mohican, Paul E. Leaf, USA

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